Anton Wahrby, who spent one season playing high school football in America as a foreign exchange student from Sweden at Lexington and came back to become an All-America offensive lineman for Wofford, has given up the pads for a suit and tie.

Wahrby attended preseason NFL minicamps with the Seattle Seahawks and Kansas City Chiefs, whom he said paid particular attention to him at Wofford, then during workouts at Furman and in front of many more scouts at South Carolina State.

“I don’t understand all that NFL stuff,” Wofford offensive line coach Eric Nash said. “It’s kind of disappointing when you have a guy like that and you would just like to see him get an opportunity. But he did everything he could do. He worked out, he trained and he did it in front of a lot of scouts. I guess so much of it is timing.”

Wahrby decided not to wait for the timing to be right. He is back in Sweden, working in the fraud protection department at a major bank.

“I’m sure he loves the fact that he is enforcing the rules. He was always about the rules,” Nash said. “And if those bank people were smart, they would send Anton (6-foot-3 and 310 pounds) out personally to deal with the people he catches to take care of them.”

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